i. think. it's a militant threatening to carry out more terror attacks in retaliation for the french campaign in mali accusing. the german coalition government files an important test just months ahead of the national parliamentary. christian democrats lose ground to the social democrats opposition in regional elections. and israel prepares for its own parliamentary poll on cheese day we were poor from why many in the country are growing increasingly frustrated with the policies of the party that's set to.

have your company you're watching live from moscow with may. terrorists allegedly responsible for the deadly siege in algeria says france is carrying out a crusader campaign in the region thirty eight hostages were killed after militants captured a remote gas plant in retaliation for the ongoing french intervention in neighboring mali these armies claimed they wanted to negotiate the release of their captives but the offer was turned down with the algerian military deciding to storm the facility causing a bloodbath more terror attacks have been promised and left france and his campaign in west africa some of the hostage takers were militants from libya where paris helped islamised topple colonel gadhafi who had warned of an impending al-qaeda surge in the region. reports that very very. you wanted peace

you wanted freedom you wanted economic progress france great britain europe will always stand by the libyan people of course. but a regional crisis probably wasn't what mischief sarkozy anticipated when he was spearheading the military operation to topple moammar gadhafi although the former french president can't say that he hadn't been warned personally i play a significant role in establishing peace in those regions of africa should the situation in libya be on stable al qaeda will establish its rule a lot and will return and libya will be another afghanistan the terrorists will flood to europe cut to paris and almost two years later mark is out these words could well be ringing in the areas of need what i saw was the successor francois hollande having just sent troops to mali france's new leader could well be learning

that every action has a reaction. secu so not only did the french intervention in libya not help the democratic process which is what they said they were after but it is that simply opened up the floodgates for weapons stockpiles and fighters to leave the country and go solve a lot of this is no more to mali where the recently deployed french military were reportedly stunned by the technologically advanced weapons that are in the hands of their adversaries nobody seems to think that perhaps organized groups come from somewhere other than mali it seems they came across the nearby libyan border libya is as i say central to all this problem because all the plot of weapons it's been produced by the collapse of the darfur region but also by the complete failure to establish any kind of real state you have essentially all talk rating in different parts of libya and you have across much of this hour a situation where people have arguments where very little civic sense so bribery and corruption order grabs is common place gadhafi was bitter opponent all right it

was ahmed groups whatever his faults and they now have the ability to use the chaos in libya to provide a basis the first effects for immediate hostage crisis in algeria said to be in retaliation for the french offensive in mali has already claimed the lives of dozens of civilians taken captive and i'm frightened of terrorism this is always been a problem for france whether it's sure arkell sarkozy. i'm french i was born here and lived here my culture is french my origins are there and i was there like another country telling me. you were scared of anything that threatens us. france's global allies are showing signs of being sucked into the mali conflict british prime minister david cameron has already acknowledged that battling radical insurgency in the region could take decades rather than months and all this so that

france can remedy the not sects from its libyan intervention. r t paris. well earlier my colleague and the scenary spoke with the former u.k. ambassador to graeme hand who says the killing of several british hostages isn't enough to dissuade london from helping the french intervention to united kingdom will continue to support the french intervention i imagine that the british government will also want to support our friends in algeria in any way that they might ask us to. david cameron has said that the fight against islamic terrorists in north africa could take decades can britain really afford to get involved like they did in afghanistan which i should mention of course started out with george bush saying that we would be in and out. well politicians turned always to say we'll be in and then we'll be in sync mr cameron knows that this will take time i

don't imagine that he is thinking of committing british ground troops to north africa but there's a lot we can do in terms of intelligence technology logistics i think it does have to be done the question really is how can we afford not to. there was the thought that france went in because of possible uranium resources there what is britain's interests them. well i think britain's interest is in having stability on the on the if you like the southern florida flank of nato just across the mediterranean from from western europe. i don't accept these conspiracy theories about minerals i think it's really about knowing that we have we have stable neighbors stable neighbors but at the same time britain openly backs rebels who are known to have sort of attachments to al qaeda and other is islamist groups there so where

then is the consistency of what rebel groups. in syria. yes yes well if i say reading anything it was more of a geo political in terms of security and not resources so where then why yes in syria no in algeria and mali well i think it's a different story this is not. an al-qaeda linked islam a stop arising in syria it's ordinary people who want a different life they want to be rid of a tyrant. in charge of them and this will solve itself apparently without any intervention from the outside i think the story in mali is completely different this is foreign intervention by the al-qaeda linked terrorists themselves this is not honest molly ivins trying to change the government while

political analyst john laughlin says western countries support islamics when he's seen a geo political interest to do say. i greatly enjoyed the ambassador's. discomfiture when you put him back question i mean he doesn't have an answer and the western governments do not have an answer to the question of it which is to say why do we support islamic or islamist rebels in syria and yet send troops into crush islam it's rebels in mali there's no way of squaring the circle these are simply double standards for the by the same token why do we support last year the secession of south sudan but we certainly send in troops to prevent the secession of north mali these are political decision we are taking political decisions on the basis of our political vision and our friends and enemies and that's the reason why we do one thing in syria and the other thing in mali and as for encouraging stability i mean

that really does take the cooking to say that you know we have practically the whole of the middle east including north africa in turmoil we have supported we the west have supported the great uprisings of the arab spring only to find that they the regimes they have produced have an important islamic element these are conundrums which the west has not solved and is not solving it is on the contrary making matters worse the german chancellor angela merkel's coalition has suffered a blow ahead of the parliamentary election later this year they've been defeated in a key regional losing by one seat in lower saxony the disappointing result potentially puts merkel in a vulnerable position ahead of september's general election which she seeks to win a third term in office artie's peter oliver reports on the fragile support for the german leader made it home and abroad the thirteenth setback in local

elections that angle a merkel's christian democrat party and their coalition partners the free democrats have suffered it's also more importantly the fifty. the fifth state government which they've lost to the social democrats since two thousand and nine this vote in lower saxony which is the fourth most populous state in germany it's seen very much as a bellwether of opinion and it was incredibly tight well it was by one seat and what it does mean though even by the smallest of margins the social democrats well they smell blood heading into the general election their candidate for the chancellorship steinbrück said this well this shows that a change of government and power is possible this year what's interesting when you look at this particular particular local election is the eurozone debt crisis really didn't come into it this was a local election where people were voting on local issues now it's in that area where mrs merkel is starting to show some weaknesses as it were and her christian

democratic party and their coalition partners but she still has this personal appeal as the leader because of what she's done for the eurozone crisis but of course that isn't mirrored when you look around the rest of europe particularly in countries like greece where we've seen burned in effigy and even compared to adult hitler because the greek people they see angela merkel as the main person behind the austerity that they're having to live through so her popularity abroad personally isn't particularly great when it comes to the eurozone crisis however germans are happy with the way that she's managed this crisis and managed germany's economy throughout it but as i say it's going to come down to whether she can convince the german people that she's the right person to manage german interests at home as well as those abroad whether she can win not third term towards the end of this year. well across the atlantic another leader is setting out his second

term still these are live pictures about the farmer at the moment delivering the speech that he's. the next four years of his presidency and later in the program we will discuss whether he can live up to his promises. plus hungry for profits why investment bank is being blamed for forcing up food prices for everyone else the details in a couple of weeks. i . mean speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v.

reporting from the world talks about six of v.i.p.'s interviews intriguing stories are you. trying. to find out more visit our big teeth. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. welcome back now with a general election looming in israel polls predict there will be little change to the. makeup of the country's parliament forecasts promising the return of prime

minister benjamin netanyahu is right wing likud party leaving many voters apathetic and disillusioned artie's poor slayer has this report. the countdown has begun but instead of scanning the papers to brush up on who's saying what in the final hours before his radios head to the polls. is searching for an apartment the twenty eight year old is desperate to move out of his parents' home but times are tough and he blames the government right i'm not going to vote i see who are the candidates and there is no one standing who represents me or who can change the general mood in the country with the recent political justing that's all candidates move from one party to another induced even more pessimism in people like musharraf who have lost trust in israeli politician is the union between bibi netanyahu and his foreign minister avigdor lieberman into biederman government the return of c.p.a. leave me form opposition leader back into the fray just a few months after announcing her time and only frustrated and already election

where we public many israelis don't believe that the present qualities of the parties. have any really new solutions to the big problems facing israel security spirit economic issues. but among all the uncertainty one thing is certain for the disenchanted voters and it can work and i also feel like the outcome is pre-determined everyone knows not to know who is going to win for them or the apathy based on the belief that netanyahu will almost certainly when has made experts to worry about the state of his way to democracy. there are some populations designing these really society if you take a certain sort of truth dogs presenters that turns out to vote is very high it's above eighty on the other hand when you look at the middle class the youth and the arabs the presenters is around sixty. and those figures only help netanyahu and his allies of course there are parties who are ready to oppose the

government's policies one of their merits boasts that a vote for them is a secure vote against netanyahu and a leadership that will destroy israel first of all are is a lation the war will continue. there will be no solution to the palestinian problem in the economic and social gaps between rich and poor will get to march why they are in deeper but merits is expected to win only around five percent of the votes in a record field of fifty four parties that are running in these elections netanyahu is party is expected to get only about a quarter of the seats in the parliament but with other political forces being shattered into rival factions this is still going to be enough for him to continue in power the coalition effort on yahoo is expected to build would have a very slim majority but it would still give him the mandate he needs to map out this country's next four years but the paradox of this election is that the candidate say to when is not particularly liked by most of the country policy r.t.

tel aviv. and tell her is executive director of the one voice movement that is calling for a two state solution says the netanyahu government has failed to address many of the country's key problems. now finds himself leading a party of offering a very platform actually no platform at all but they have not presented a program a party program to address a lot of the issues that are concerning israeli citizens from the left and the right and are dividing them and when you think about the prospects for this government leading policy of more settlement expansion and indeed even annexation of the occupied territories in the west bank i think that it would lead not only to a growing pressure in friction with the united states and president obama with the european union and with the palestinian population but it will also lead to a growing disappointment in the israeli public that. it is still

supporting and i believe will still support. it and uphold its right to peace and security which can only be manifested and realized through the two state solution. and we'll be closely watching these radio elections all day on cheese day bringing the coverage as well as an in-depth exploration of the she's of israel settlements with a twist. i'm here with some investors from england. i'm here to show you more from my book or to any known jewish or. not you know the next book the state solution. she starts here from all over the. now barack obama has just been outlining his second term plans in his inaugural speech among the issues he's race he said enjoying world security and lasting peace

do not require perpetual war let's get the thoughts of former u.s. senate foreign part of policy adviser james jatra scene in washington james thank you for your time firstly president obama he has inherited has been the a controversial foreign policy legacy from george w. bush how is it developed under him in a things better or worse do you think. i don't think they're much better but they're not much worse either i think the main thing that characterized mr obama's first term was continuity with the bush legacy most notably for example in the intervention in libya i think the real question is is will there be a shift in his second term in line with what he said today for example will we back away from potential confrontation or end military involvement in syria will we back away from confrontation with iran will we withdraw the missile deployment system on

your russia's western borders there are things that he can do to radically shift in his second term away from the bush legacy when you talk about confrontation that i mean a bomber still trying to engage the leadership of iran and north korea and convince them is need to shelve their nuclear ambitions but the u.s. sanctions on tehran and new ballistic deals we sat korea provocative rather than co-operative. yes you you could look at it that way but on the other hand if you want to get to a deal with any of these countries you have to show and i think he also projected this that this is simply not going to be. not resting on a strong position on the part of the united states i think the real question is going to be is what is the ultimate goal here if we define our policy as achieving for example regime change in a place like syria then there's really no way to avoid confrontation if we broaden how we define our goals in some of these trouble spots the prospects are much more

flexible i believe. now there is there is talk of possible direct foreign investment in syria to president assad but isn't giving the rebel who was that their strategic information and assisting. a sort of intervention already. of course that is that it's already a violation of international law dollar already aggression under the u.n. charter plus we have the very worrisome deployment of american missiles in turkey as if it were turkey that needs a defense against syrian aggression rather than the other way around the real key here is will the obama administration especially with the departure of hillary clinton which i take is a very favorable development will it take off the table the after your demand that bashar assad must step down before negotiations can move forward i think if we were to back away from that the prospect of

a negotiated settlement could be opened up but we're not there yet where i will let's suppose i mean if the intervention does go all the way to pad is the obama administration to deal with a post assad syria. i do you know i don't think i don't think they're prepared to deal with that at all one of the problems with the various american led interventions over the years whether we're talking about bosnia kosovo libya and hopefully not in the future syria is that the goal mediately defined comes first and then worry about the consequences later is something that is not fully taken into account we look at for example the aftershocks of libya in mali and in algeria ok we will leave it and former us senate foreign policy adviser thank you for your time thank you good times at goldman sachs staff at the investment giant are reported to be

getting a significant salary boost but a lot of that money has been made on the back of surging food prices which are leaving many around the world starving nearly my colleague in d.c. now we speak to our sees the legacy of ski he's been looking into the matter. this debate has been going on for many years now but this latest controversy is definitely making this discussion even more fueled now the employees of goldman sachs investment bank are in for some happy times their salaries have reportedly been raised and almost half a million dollars worth of annual bonuses are to be paid out all because in twenty twelve the company made about four hundred million dollars from investing its clients' money in a range of products known as soft commodities such as weak and maize to coffee and sugar but what's good for bankers is damaging the global food situation say experts and many claim major investment players are contributing to a global food emergency the united nations has warned that the world could be on the brink of a major hunger crisis this year after poor harvests in the united states and

ukraine food prices already surged last summer with cereals hitting a record high in september last year food cost sixteen percent higher than in twenty ten and more than twice as expensive as a decade ago even after adjusting for inflation with almost a billion people already starving such a forecast could make things catastrophic worse and the latest controversy with goldman sachs has once again we ignited the debate on what actually stands behind the hike in food prices organizations like food watch say they are not the only ones financial players around the world to bear a large part of blame by investing astronomical sums of money into foodstuffs and speculating on the prices to make big profits in the last three years alone speculators have poured in as an extra hundred billion u.s. dollars into the sector and that is expected of driving prices even higher investment and central banks deny this saying futures trading is important for farmers and their bets have no effect yet the prices. bear scant resemblance to the

natural growth in demand for food moreover they're already creating grounds for instability sparking protests and demonstrations for instance in several african countries including working faster and senegal bakers went on strike recently because of an eighty percent increase in the price of wheat so if this trend continues people will be unable to afford basic staple foods and if further harvest suffer too it's not hard to imagine the consequences for the world's hungry. now it's just gone twenty five past nine here in moscow and it is time to look back at the top stories in sport in the last week with kate patrick. georgian president mikheil saakashvili is military police have been accused by

prosecutors of using a very unusual weapon to control members of the government a weapon so unusual that history great villains would even touch it that weapon was almost sexuality the georgian prosecutor's office claims a network of gay spies was set up to seduce certain politicians in order to surveil them and blackmail them the gay spies would attempt to men in the government into going back to their apartments which were filled with hidden cameras and microphones to record information and create a not safe for work video to be used to put pressure on these officials this is truly one of the most unique and kind of gross weapons of political intrigue i've ever heard of i mean how many men in georgia politics could possibly fall into the spy trap you know if he actually did implement this scheme and it actually worked than machiavelli and von bismarck could have a thing or two to learn from president saakashvili but that's just my opinion.

hello welcome to the our two sports show with make a partridge and here other top stories. big battle to get concorde nets the winner is defending champions the nominee must fight back to really a three to thriller it's gone and we are in the title race in the west. last europhile test downstate joint top of their group and kinky thrash monkey on a big week for the russian teens in the top sixteen of the euro b. . and lighting up with just over you have to go to the winter games the olympic torch is on bail which will travel all across russia before reaching the host venue or sochi. but first to the ice where

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